Re: tcprules, rcpthost, ip address problem

[Adam McKenna]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 04:04:37AM -0500, Christopher Tolley wrote:
> I'm not going to argue, but I HAVE had to kill and restart tcpserver for the
> changes to take effect.  If that's wrong, then I don't know how to make the
> changes take and NOT restart tcpserver...perhaps you can enlighten me a bit
> in that respect.  I'm not out to perform disinformation...just speaking from
> first-hand experience
> 
> BTW, I run tcpserver stand-alone, without the extra wrappers to monitor it.
> Is this the limitation or is it something else?

There is no limitation.  tcpserver reads the cdb given as the argument to -x 
every time a connection is made.

>From the man page:

       -xrules.cdb
              Follow   the   rules  compiled  into  rules.cdb  by
              tcprules.  These rules may specify setting environ�
              ment  variables  or  rejecting connections from bad
              sources.
              
              tcpserver does not read rules.cdb into memory;  you
              can  rerun  tcprules to change tcpserver's behavior
              on the fly.

--Adam